Your 2 inch neodymium magnet cubes would be just about as dangerous, if not more. You get your hand stuck between them, and you will not have a hand anymore.
The answer is most definitely: Yes. We're all saying that the iPad was NOT innovative. There are over 50 prior art examples for a tablet shaped computing device. It's pretty cool that Apple was the very first to make a soccer-mom oriented version of a tablet computer, but Apple most certainly had nothing to do with the first tablet computers, which predate the iPad by about a two decades.
Apple invented the tablet computer as much as Edison invented the light bulb.
There is actually a good reason for the slow change. The energy industry gets massive subsidies (mostly in form of tax breaks) and hides the true cost of energy. We pay just 10 cents for kWh, and $3 for a gallon of gas, but the actual cost is much higher than that. The subsidies make it look cheap to drive a giant Chevy Suburban. I drive a small car that gets about 50 MPG, and I hardly ever pay anything for gas, while Douchebag Bob with Chevy Suburban gets 10 MPG and fills up a hundred dollars worth every week.... YET, I am paying a lot for gas because thanks to the subsidies, I am paying for Douchebag Bob's gas too, we're all paying for Douchebag Bob's gas. The energy industry does not need subsidies, they're already making record profits, and the subsidies hide the true cost of things.
With all the TEA party uproar about having smaller government, you would think they would be mentioning cutting billion dollar subsidies to industries that don't need them? Subsidy is corporate welfare, and the energy companies abuse the corporate welfare system. No, instead the TEA baggers just want to cut the Planned Parenthood funding, which is less than 0.1% of energy+farm subsidies.
When I say subsidy, I also include tax breaks. It's the same thing in my book. A subsidy takes money from people who have paid tax, a tax break takes money from everyone who hasn't received that tax break.
That pretty much sums it up. The guy is completely oblivious or in denial. He failed, and if he can't even admit they failed to innovate, then the company isn't out of the woods yet.
Blackberry made an awesome successful product, and thought they could simply coast from its popularity for the next 25 years... they had no idea other companies would come up with better stuff in the blink of an eye. In computer world, 10 years is an eternity. Seeing your shortcomings and fixing them is the key to success. Blackberry didn't see their shortcomings, and from the looks of it, sounds like they still don't.
We will soon. The overwhelming majority of the "God hates fags" movement are ancient bigots on their way out. Their bigoted ideologies and their hate will die with them in the next 30 years.
I searched my bookshelf, the local library and the book store for a book I needed... I violated Apple's precious patent. OH WAIT, I did this two decades ago. Prior art fuckers! I used the "searching multiple places" idea long before Apple made a patent for it. I'm sure we all did.
The problem is that MPAA/RIAA somehow think they're going to get more money from what they think are "consumers". The overwhelming majority people they're going after have no plans on giving their money to media distributors because they either don't have any or know better. Yet, they continue to waste their resources going after these "pirates" - who aren't really pirates because they're not profiting from their activities in any way.
The distributors are always complaining about how they're barely making ends meet.... perhaps if they didn't pay themselves millions of dollars they wouldn't have any problems? As I see it, they're just greedy assholes. They should do us all a favor and roll over and die. In a world where cost of distribution is very close to $0, there is no need for a digital media distribution company.
Yep... for someone like Steve Jobs, a 1 million dollar 6000 square feet home is basically a tiny shack - like his own private hospital room. It's quite obvious they got it purely to cheat the transplant system. The doctor needs to be held accountable, his actions were negligent at best and quite possibly criminal. Giving a liver to someone who has almost no chance of surviving while other younger healthier people are dying because they didn't get the liver they need. This is not good. There needs to be an investigation.
They are unskilled laborers, $12/hr is alright for that kind of job. I am not an Apple fan, but this is silly to single out one company. I think it was some Disney employees that were fighting for a 25 cent raise when Michael Eisner gave himself a multi-million dollar bonus.
I despise Apple, but it's not just Apple. As any company gets bigger, there are more leaders, and more levels of leaders, each successive layer receiving significantly more money than the lower level... Walmart, anyone? Apple store employees are no more deserving of more money than Walmart employees. Apple's no different than Walmart etc.
The people who run the company aren't running a charity. At the end of the day it's not how much love the company has, because love does not pay the bills, love will not buy you that luxury mega-yacht in the Mediterranean. If you pay 30000 employees just $1 more per hour, that would come out to roughly $43 million dollars. Tim Cook received $570 million dollars worth of stock, for that money you could pay each apple store employee an extra $12 per hour, for some of them this would be doubling their wages. Go ask Tim Cook if he wants to give up his $570 million bonus just so that his store employees can make $20k more per year. Would you??
The problem is much deeper than Apple. The problem is that we somehow accept it as okay when someone gets compensated 20 thousand times more than some others. Do you seriously think one single person can ever be as productive as 20000 others? Maybe you convince yourself that maybe he's doing 20 thousand people's worth of work, so it's okay. Maybe you give up and accept it as "the world's unfair" and there's nothing you can do about it. As long as you convince yourself it's okay, you will have store clerks working for $12/hr while the people on top in the very same company will be getting 20000 times more money. I never hear anyone say: "Hey! Stop that! You can't give yourself twenty thousand times more money than this other guy."
Please stop perpetuating lies. It's an old wives tale that has absolutely no scientific backing. Evidence shows the opposite: high compensation has a detrimental effect on productivity of creative white collar employees. (This does not apply to manual labor workers)
Here's a fact: The U.S. and Israel have started war against Iran. I don't remember congress ever approving this war, I don't remember the public ever being notified that our country is now at war with yet another country, despite being unable to pay for the half dozen other wars we're currently engaged in. This is completely unacceptable.
Yes and No. Words with Friends uses the same board dimensions, the same number of letters, the same scoring. The placement of the bonus blocks is a little different, but the properties of the bonus blocks are identical.
I think with this precedent, Hasbro could easily go after the multi-million dollar knock-off like Words with Friends. They have a case. The same thing with Taito and their wildly popular game Bust-A-Move which has had a large number of clones ever since it came out. Taito never went after these clones, to the point where some people think Snood is an original game.
Someone should of corrected you before. I could of corrected you, but I ofn't. Instead, I of made fun of the "of" misuse.
It's "HAVE" you dumb ass. Putting "OF" makes no sense at all. In spoken language "OF" sounds vaguely similar to "HAVE", but that doesn't mean they're interchangeable. You should have known better.
Lawyers are especially good at finding loopholes to abuse. You pass a law saying megacorp has to pay joe's lawyer expenses to match their own lawyer expenses, it wouldn't take long until megacorp finds a way to funnel huge amount of cash to their own lawyers through some special undisclosed ways. Megacorp then would hire a team of dozen lawyers for the bargain price of about $20/hour while you get screwed because you can't afford even a single lawyer on that price.
The legal and tax codes are chuck-full of stupid laws like this that are almost designed to be abused. In the end it will not solve anything, just make a bigger mess.
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Your 2 inch neodymium magnet cubes would be just about as dangerous, if not more. You get your hand stuck between them, and you will not have a hand anymore.
And why is Apple suing for $2.5B in damages when by their own admission, they lost only "hundreds of millions of dollars"?
Lawyers... they use fuzzy math.
The answer is most definitely: Yes. We're all saying that the iPad was NOT innovative. There are over 50 prior art examples for a tablet shaped computing device. It's pretty cool that Apple was the very first to make a soccer-mom oriented version of a tablet computer, but Apple most certainly had nothing to do with the first tablet computers, which predate the iPad by about a two decades.
Apple invented the tablet computer as much as Edison invented the light bulb.
Great, at least I can now channel all my negative thougts to one partnership.
That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw this headline.
Soon we will be able to combine the sites http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ and http://failbook.failblog.org/ into one.
Wrong, it has to be novel. Being novel is a prerequisite to being patentable.
$65/mo for two lines without data? Sounds like you're getting ripped off.
There is actually a good reason for the slow change. The energy industry gets massive subsidies (mostly in form of tax breaks) and hides the true cost of energy. We pay just 10 cents for kWh, and $3 for a gallon of gas, but the actual cost is much higher than that. The subsidies make it look cheap to drive a giant Chevy Suburban. I drive a small car that gets about 50 MPG, and I hardly ever pay anything for gas, while Douchebag Bob with Chevy Suburban gets 10 MPG and fills up a hundred dollars worth every week.... YET, I am paying a lot for gas because thanks to the subsidies, I am paying for Douchebag Bob's gas too, we're all paying for Douchebag Bob's gas. The energy industry does not need subsidies, they're already making record profits, and the subsidies hide the true cost of things.
With all the TEA party uproar about having smaller government, you would think they would be mentioning cutting billion dollar subsidies to industries that don't need them? Subsidy is corporate welfare, and the energy companies abuse the corporate welfare system. No, instead the TEA baggers just want to cut the Planned Parenthood funding, which is less than 0.1% of energy+farm subsidies.
When I say subsidy, I also include tax breaks. It's the same thing in my book. A subsidy takes money from people who have paid tax, a tax break takes money from everyone who hasn't received that tax break.
That pretty much sums it up. The guy is completely oblivious or in denial. He failed, and if he can't even admit they failed to innovate, then the company isn't out of the woods yet.
Blackberry made an awesome successful product, and thought they could simply coast from its popularity for the next 25 years... they had no idea other companies would come up with better stuff in the blink of an eye. In computer world, 10 years is an eternity. Seeing your shortcomings and fixing them is the key to success. Blackberry didn't see their shortcomings, and from the looks of it, sounds like they still don't.
We will soon. The overwhelming majority of the "God hates fags" movement are ancient bigots on their way out. Their bigoted ideologies and their hate will die with them in the next 30 years.
I searched my bookshelf, the local library and the book store for a book I needed... I violated Apple's precious patent. OH WAIT, I did this two decades ago. Prior art fuckers! I used the "searching multiple places" idea long before Apple made a patent for it. I'm sure we all did.
The problem is that MPAA/RIAA somehow think they're going to get more money from what they think are "consumers". The overwhelming majority people they're going after have no plans on giving their money to media distributors because they either don't have any or know better. Yet, they continue to waste their resources going after these "pirates" - who aren't really pirates because they're not profiting from their activities in any way.
The distributors are always complaining about how they're barely making ends meet.... perhaps if they didn't pay themselves millions of dollars they wouldn't have any problems? As I see it, they're just greedy assholes. They should do us all a favor and roll over and die. In a world where cost of distribution is very close to $0, there is no need for a digital media distribution company.
Apple compete by researching and designing their own products. They just want others to do the same.
Yes, that's why Microsoft spent four times as much on R&D than Apple...
Here's Captain Picard holding an iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVqHoGKQXLI
Going further back, there is more prior art in Stanley Kubrik's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Sick of Apple already.
Yep... for someone like Steve Jobs, a 1 million dollar 6000 square feet home is basically a tiny shack - like his own private hospital room. It's quite obvious they got it purely to cheat the transplant system. The doctor needs to be held accountable, his actions were negligent at best and quite possibly criminal. Giving a liver to someone who has almost no chance of surviving while other younger healthier people are dying because they didn't get the liver they need. This is not good. There needs to be an investigation.
Let's just say Dr. James Eason was moved by Steve Jobs.... TO A BIGGER HOUSE!
They are unskilled laborers, $12/hr is alright for that kind of job. I am not an Apple fan, but this is silly to single out one company. I think it was some Disney employees that were fighting for a 25 cent raise when Michael Eisner gave himself a multi-million dollar bonus.
I despise Apple, but it's not just Apple. As any company gets bigger, there are more leaders, and more levels of leaders, each successive layer receiving significantly more money than the lower level... Walmart, anyone? Apple store employees are no more deserving of more money than Walmart employees. Apple's no different than Walmart etc.
The people who run the company aren't running a charity. At the end of the day it's not how much love the company has, because love does not pay the bills, love will not buy you that luxury mega-yacht in the Mediterranean. If you pay 30000 employees just $1 more per hour, that would come out to roughly $43 million dollars. Tim Cook received $570 million dollars worth of stock, for that money you could pay each apple store employee an extra $12 per hour, for some of them this would be doubling their wages. Go ask Tim Cook if he wants to give up his $570 million bonus just so that his store employees can make $20k more per year. Would you??
The problem is much deeper than Apple. The problem is that we somehow accept it as okay when someone gets compensated 20 thousand times more than some others. Do you seriously think one single person can ever be as productive as 20000 others? Maybe you convince yourself that maybe he's doing 20 thousand people's worth of work, so it's okay. Maybe you give up and accept it as "the world's unfair" and there's nothing you can do about it. As long as you convince yourself it's okay, you will have store clerks working for $12/hr while the people on top in the very same company will be getting 20000 times more money. I never hear anyone say: "Hey! Stop that! You can't give yourself twenty thousand times more money than this other guy."
Here's the budget:
Rent: $0 - (living in parents' basement)
Food: $0 - (mom cooks)
Pay for performance is a world-wide metric.
Please stop perpetuating lies. It's an old wives tale that has absolutely no scientific backing. Evidence shows the opposite: high compensation has a detrimental effect on productivity of creative white collar employees. (This does not apply to manual labor workers)
http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/31/dan_ariely_asks/
So yeah, I would like the guy getting paid $100k instead, and use the remaining $700k to add new fiber infrastructure.
A recently drafted cyber strategy formulated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) classifies digital sabotage as an act of war.
Here's a fact: The U.S. and Israel have started war against Iran. I don't remember congress ever approving this war, I don't remember the public ever being notified that our country is now at war with yet another country, despite being unable to pay for the half dozen other wars we're currently engaged in. This is completely unacceptable.
Yes and No. Words with Friends uses the same board dimensions, the same number of letters, the same scoring. The placement of the bonus blocks is a little different, but the properties of the bonus blocks are identical.
I think with this precedent, Hasbro could easily go after the multi-million dollar knock-off like Words with Friends. They have a case. The same thing with Taito and their wildly popular game Bust-A-Move which has had a large number of clones ever since it came out. Taito never went after these clones, to the point where some people think Snood is an original game.
...somebody new gets nukes we have to worry if they'll settle a grudge right away.
You mean the way America got nukes an immediately tested them on Japan, twice?
You're not the only one! I of noticed it too. It bothers me when people put "of" instead of "have".
"... you won't of fixed any...."
Someone should of corrected you before. I could of corrected you, but I ofn't. Instead, I of made fun of the "of" misuse.
It's "HAVE" you dumb ass. Putting "OF" makes no sense at all. In spoken language "OF" sounds vaguely similar to "HAVE", but that doesn't mean they're interchangeable. You should have known better.
Lawyers are especially good at finding loopholes to abuse. You pass a law saying megacorp has to pay joe's lawyer expenses to match their own lawyer expenses, it wouldn't take long until megacorp finds a way to funnel huge amount of cash to their own lawyers through some special undisclosed ways. Megacorp then would hire a team of dozen lawyers for the bargain price of about $20/hour while you get screwed because you can't afford even a single lawyer on that price.
The legal and tax codes are chuck-full of stupid laws like this that are almost designed to be abused. In the end it will not solve anything, just make a bigger mess.
you know some people will abuse it, plugging a hair dryer into their beer belly's AC socket and end up with hypoglycemia.